The Angry Mother

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Artist, French, 1725 - 1805

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and gray wash over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Arthur L. Liebman

  • Dimensions

    overall: 35.7 x 30.5 cm (14 1/16 x 12 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.87.29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Couton, Paris (his sale, Paris, 19 April 1830, no. 239: Les Reproches maternels, a drawing in India ink); private collection (sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 26 March 1958, no. 54, pl. V); Galerie Cailleux, Paris; (Rosenberg & Stiebel), New York; Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; gift to the NGA in 1992.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • "Greuze the Draftsman", The Frick Collection, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2002, no. 29.

Bibliography

1900

  • Smith. no. 100.

1906

  • Martin and Masson 1906, no. 336.

1958

  • "Cour des tableaux anciens et modernes," Connaissance des arts, December 1958, 122, repr.

1972

  • Brookner, Anita. Greuze: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon. London, 1972: 99, 127.

Wikidata ID

Q64581127

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